Ian Plenderleith asks: How will football in America move forward without the newly crowned MLS Cup-winner DavidBeckham?
Major League Soccer has learned one major lesson from the big leagues in Europe ...

... Show – they all featured the eponymous protagonists plum in the middle of the fray. Nowadays we live in more complex times, as illustrated by Macca’s Monday Night (Setanta) and DavidBeckham’s Soccer USA ...

... with an air rifle, he’s made a number of remarkably poor judgements. Nobody would claim that Cole’s behaviour has been perfect but other England stars, such as Lampard and DavidBeckham, have emerged from ...

... ad the full article
Embed from Getty Images
Going the distance Long-range goals It took exactly 2.8 seconds for DavidBeckham to become a household name. The time between the ball leaving his ri ...

... next DavidBeckham – that Dover “would average 2,000 week if they had a team full of local lads”, a viewpoint that’s been proven to be utter tosh so many times, our regulars just tend to agree and change ...

... watched a game from the directors’ box? My worst experience at City, actually, was when the agent we were with at the time got us into the directors’ box for a David Bowie show at Maine Road. And it was ...

... that time Robbie Fowler really stood out, though we had a good team all round. Sol Campbell was playing, Gary Neville, Nicky Butt, Paul Scholes. DavidBeckham didn’t make the final squad, although he’d ...

... the state of the nation to England’s captains of the era.
Shindler claims Billy Wright, Bobby Moore, Gary Lineker and DavidBeckham exemplify the England of the day, admitting early on that captains ...

... Bobby Stokes scoring at Wembley; DavidBeckham and Ryan Giggs rendered powerless in grey jerseys at the Dell; and proving that win was no fluke by putting six past them the following season.
Wins at ...

... ruse aimed at introducing “Brand Cahill” to a wider audience.
No great surprise to learn, then, that Cahill cites DavidBeckham as an inspiration. The similarities between the two don’t end with his ...

... en’t 100 per cent sure if DavidBeckham had played in the Champions League for Milan." Buy here to read the full article
Plus Revolution at amateur level Inside football's slave trade Is Germany a fan ...

... Cameron Carter
---
Own goal of the week, from 1860 Munich reserves' match against Jahn Regensburg. The opposition even have the nerve to congratulate each other.
ynQIREPfp1c
---
from David Montgomery ...

... as a human being and professional – but GoodFella doesn't hold back when it comes to those he disliked. Graham Poll comes across as a self-serving "celebrity ref", starstruck by DavidBeckham and Patric ...

... ristocratic Arthur Kinnaird (a 19th-century DavidBeckham, suggests Brown) and poet Nevill "Nuts" Cobbold, regarded as the forefather of dribbling.
The rules may have varied from town to town, even factor ...

A small portion of despair and enlightenment delivered to your inbox every Friday 17 May 2013 ~
Financial commentators estimate that DavidBeckham could become "a $500 million brand" now he can turn hi ...

... of our best players." That was in April 2003, two months before DavidBeckham left for Real Madrid. Expect to hear more soon how Wayne Rooney is "looking for a new challenge".
---
Badge of the we ...